T.O.Munro

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

It reminds me of that Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch -
"The devil: Is he all bad?"

A very important question.

The perpetrators in DHS must be held to account and charged with attempted murder.

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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The Fantasy Hive has returned to SPFBO! Our resident SPFBO super-fan Theo has put together a team for SPFBO 11 - eleven?! Where has the time gone??

Meet this year's team and learn about the Hive's process here: tinyurl.com/mrab3mrk

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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

Email TDs and Senators to stop Darragh O'Brien's fossil fuel power grab I just emailed the TDs and Senators on the climate committee asking them to stop Darragh O'Briens fossil fuel power grab. Can you do the same?

I just emailed the TDs and Senators on the climate committee asking them to stop Darragh O'Briens fossil fuel power grab. Can you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/em...

N TISZA 50 40 30 53% 37% 20 10 FIDESZ TISZA 21 RESEARCH CENTER SURVEY 2026. FEBRUARY, DECIDED VOTERS

Hungary opposition Peter Magyar: “There are 68 days until the elections. We are leading Fidesz (Orban) by a huge margin. But because of that, the remaining just over two months will be incredibly difficult and important. Fidesz will attack, incite, and threaten by any means necessary. But…game on!”

Can the new law being drawn up to end Peter Madelson's peerage be tweaked to cover other dodgy members of the House of Lords?

Timeline cleanse from Murderbot. I know time is meaningless now but it aired in May-June 2025 and is eligible for award nominations this year marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670572.html

I think it's very clear at this point that this regime is going to try to overturn the results of the Midterm elections at this point. That does not mean they will be successful but we absolutely need to be prepared for that effort at this point.

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

🔴In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel

The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, reports @peterjukes.bsky.social

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Nine in ten members of the membership organisation at the world-famous ponds voted against segregating Trans+ people. Sex Matters has been blocked from challenging Hampstead Heath’s Trans+ inclusive approach at the world-famous swimming ponds. The judge said the high court was the wrong place for the case to be brought, adding that the City of London is already consulting on the issue, making the legal challenge "premature" and "unhelpful" - Metro Following the ruling, the organisation published the results of its consultation showing that 86% of members were in favour of them remaining Trans+ inclusive, with 90% of people rejecting requiring trans swimmers to use separate changing rooms or have separate swimming sessions - City of London

Sex Matters raised over £64,000 to bring this now-failed court action 👇

Source: news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/consultation...

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My mum had bombs dropped on her as a child. My dad bled on a beach in battle. I'm not yet bored of rules-based coexistence, because anger isn't the same as education, history isn't a comic, and interesting times don't just happen to someone else.

Stockport is out today supporting the by-election in Gorton & Denton 💚
Knocking on doors, delivering leaflets, having real conversations.

This is a straight fight: Greens vs Reform.
Let’s turn Gorton & Denton Green — we must win.

#VoteGreen #GortonAndDenton #GreenSurge #BeatReform #PeoplePowered 💚

Starmer vows to take UK deeper into EU single market Seemingly buoyed by a positive reception and a smaller-than-anticipated backlash, the British PM is now doubling down on his Brexit reset.

🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney put it well in his book Values: society has confused “value” (market price) with “values” (social, moral and ethical principles).

The EU is a values-based system: rule of law, democracy and human rights, checks on power...

Align wisely, UK.

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Greens select former mayoral candidate to run in Gorton and Denton byelection Hannah Spencer, a Trafford councillor and plumber, ran as the party’s candidate for mayor of Manchester in 2024

Should #HannahSpencer win the byelection, she would become the #GreenParty fifth sitting MP, and their first ever in the north. At 34, she would also be their youngest ever MP

#VoteGreen #JoinGreen join.greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Greens have picked local councillor and plumber Hannah Spencer as their candidate for the Gorton & Denton by-election.

If successful, she will be the party's first MP in the North

Departures from TikTok have shot up.

Btw - you can find me on Upscrolled too.

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ICE Quietly Bails on Super Bowl as Outrage Grows The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly benched for any NFL-sponsored events.

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ICE agents will not be deployed at Super Bowl LX, TMZ reported. What’s more Department of Homeland Security insiders told the outlet that ICE activity at any NFL-sponsored events across the city at all has been ruled out.

www.thedailybeast.com//ice-quietly...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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S9, Ep3 | The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

It’s the anniversary of Citizens United today so I’m back in my bullshit about the role of oil companies in the corporate free speech movement and how they are trying to expand it even further at the moment. We did a whole podcast season on it: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Any territory Ukraine withdraws from Russia will occupy, and the Trump-led US will let them.

Doesn’t matter what Putin or Trump officials say now or what Ukraine gets in writing, no promise from them is credible.

I’m pretty sure the Ukrainians know this. Anyone trying to pressure them should too.

“Slopagandist”

Early entry in the Oxford English Dictionary’s

“Best new word of 2026”

Competition

GOOD LAW goodlawproject and jolyon_maugham 1 hour ago ... A huge win for trans rights Hampstead ponds will remain trans inclusive

I have met many women who use the pool and hoped this would be the result - enjoy your swim

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The long awaited Silencing of the North, sequel to Seven Deaths of an Empire, releases tomorrow!

We're running a give away to celebrate 🥳🎉

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